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This result provides one more evidence to show that
critical concentrations relate to the micellization
process rather than to kinetics, as ethyl p-nitrophenyl
(chloromethyl)phosphonate has much different re-
activities in the micellar solutions of compounds III
and IV (Table 3), whereas the corresponding cCMC
values are quite close. As shown in [17], all the three
hydrolysis and acid base dissociation processes in
micelles of compound IV have coincident ccr values
for each of the couterions. The aforesaid means that
ccr depends not only on the nature of counterion and
surfactant and is independent on the type of the pro-
cess, i.e. is a characteristic of a surfactant with each
concrete counterion.
Ethyl p-nitrophenyl (chloromethyl)phosphonate
was synthesized as described in [22]. Pure grade sur-
factants I III were twice recrystallized from ethanol.
Compound IV (Sigma) was used as received.
Kinetic measurements were performed on a
Specord M-400 spectrophotometer at 25 C, following
the absorbance of p-nitrophenolate anion at
400 nm. The initial concentration of the substrate in
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kinetic experiments was 5 10 M. The apparent
pseudo-first-order rate constants (kapp) were deter-
mined from the dependence ln (D
D) = kapp +
const (D and D are the optical density of the solution
at time and at reaction completion). The kapp values
were calculated by the least-squares method.
Third, it was found that the ccr values for micelles
of compounds III and IV, measured by physical
methods in [19], and the kinetic ccr values we ob-
tained in [17] coincide. We perfomed a parallel kinetic
study of hydrolysis of ethyl p-nitrophenyl (chloro-
methyl)phosphonate in micelles of compound II and
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The work was financially supported by the Russian
Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 99-03-
32037a) and Khal’dor Topse Joint-Stock Company.
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of micellization of the latter compound by H NMR
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